Temporary Assistance for Needy Families in Massachusetts

Massachusetts × 93.558 is a TANF listing, not a TAFDC census

This page pairs CFDA 93.558, TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES, with Massachusetts place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $2,319,645,418.02 on 5 awards. The join is HHS's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families listing crossed with a Massachusetts location field, not Massachusetts's entire HHS book and not a count of TAFDC families. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking, and not a claim that 5 awards equal that many TANF families, cash grants, or local DTA offices.

SNAP, SSI, and CCDF stay on other codes unless they also carry 93.558. Correlation between this obligation sum and local need statistics is not causation. Those statistics are not in the packet. Massachusetts (MA) excludes Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. A Rhode Island TANF award is another cell. Place of performance as Massachusetts locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $2,319,645,418.02 in the state treasury.

Five HHS rows, matching Illinois TANF's award count

Mean obligation is about $463.93 million if $2,319,645,418.02 were divided evenly across 5 lines. That ratio is a quotient of two packet facts, not a published typical award. Five records matches Illinois TANF's award count on a smaller dollar book. Still a thin block-grant file, not household rows. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations. It is not a census of TANF families, cash grants, or local DTA offices.

Five awards are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Temporary Assistance For Needy Families in Massachusetts for the stored table. Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and the Cape are unpublished. Five awards are not five DTA offices. The $2,319,645,418.02 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards.

Questions

How much Temporary Assistance For Needy Families funding is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov shows $2,319,645,418.02 in obligations for CFDA 93.558 with Massachusetts as place of performance, across 5 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Massachusetts's entire federal-spending total. Other listings are outside this join unless they also carry 93.558.

Do 5 awards equal 5 Massachusetts TANF families?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of TANF families, cash grants, or local DTA offices. The packet does not name recipients. See Temporary Assistance For Needy Families in Massachusetts for named lines as USAspending stored them. The implied mean near $463.93 million is a ratio, not a typical unit.

Is this Massachusetts's entire Massachusetts public-assistance budget?

No. The join is CFDA 93.558 crossed with Massachusetts place of performance. Related programs on other CFDA numbers are not inside $2,319,645,418.02 unless the award also carries 93.558. SNAP, SSI, and CCDF stay on other codes unless they also carry 93.558. Mixing catalogs would invent a combined figure the packet never computed.

Is the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families total already paid in Massachusetts?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $2,319,645,418.02 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Completed activity and remaining balances are not published in this packet.